it took me a while to figure out, but #Thunderbird seems to have changed the default view with the latest version 115. All of a sudden I didn't get proper threading anymore.
Turns out there is an option to choose between Table view and the more webmail-like Card view, and Card view is selected as the standard.
That was of course after I already went to the about:config and tried to methodically go through all the threading options to no success.
Today's Thunderbird Tip is something you'll want to bookmark if you use Thunderbird with Microsoft hosted accounts. Our Knowledge Base (KB) article on Microsoft OAuth is up to date - and we're staying alert to keep this resource current and helpful. 📖 ✨
So, if #Thunderbird starts to scramble the odd email that it retrieves from gmail - will that affect the emails in in my gmail account if it's synched?
One in a while, the odd email in my TB inbox either appears blank or has a bunch of code/text (whatever) appearing instead of just the email. In one that I know of, the subject heading is from one email and the content is from another (but with pages and pages of jibberish.
If I do a Repair on the Thunderbird inbox, should I disconnect it from gmail? @thunderbird
TIL: Something which I suspected for ages (and is really annoying) but have finally found the answer to, is that @thunderbird global searches are faceted and try to find close matches:
"Most of the time this is a very useful feature, but there is no way to disable it if you want an exact match"
#SCaLE21x, it's almost time to say goodbye, but it's been a blast. Thank you everyone who came by our booth to share your stories, heard @linuxflower talk about Thunderbird for Android, and made our first time here a great one. 🐧 💙
I had the pleasure to talk at #installfest in #prague today. That was a great experience. I hope my talk about #Thunderbird convinced at least one person to contribute to #Foss. I even met Mitch Altman, who it turns out uses the email client for a long time.
Sorry to bother your, @thunderbird, but I think it might have been you that explained how to put #Mastodon accounts into your #Thunderbird#RSS Feed Reader? Am I wrong? Do you know how to do that?
@GigiAmoroso Niestety niczego ciekawego co spełnia moje warunki nie ma. Miałem kolejne podejście do #thunderbird, ale on słabo umie utrzymać wątkowanie wiadomości w momencie ich archiwizowania. Wróciłem do Apple Mail.
It's a planes, trains, and automobiles kind of day for the Team #Thunderbird members heading to #SCaLE21x ! Come see us - aka Jason, Natalie, Heather, and Monica (the latter two sharing their airport pics!) - at Booth 215 . We'd love to chat with you, hear your Thunderbird stories, and share some sticker love. Ryan will be talking all about Thunderbird for Android Saturday at 14:30 in Ballroom C✈️ 🚆 🚗
Pasadena, we'll see you soon! Who else is on their way or will be shortly? 🤩
It's SCaLE21x week! We're dragging out our suitcases and making our packing lists - can't forget the stickers! We'll be at Booth 215 Friday through Sunday, and we hope you come visit us. It's our first year at SCaLE and we can hardly wait. 🐧 🌴
And in a completely, totally, honestly unrelated question, we've been thinking about the kinds of Easter Eggs you can't eat. What are YOUR favorite hidden surprises? Any media counts! 🐣 😉
It's not a big leap to say how much work went into Thunderbird for Android/K-9 this February! 🗓️
In the latest update, we talk about the newest stable release and discuss what's next: the journey to Material 3 (and how beta testers can make it as smooth as possible) and Android 14 compatibility. ✨
And as always, you can find the latest community contributions and find out how to get involved! 💪
Question to all #software engineers (of all genders, of course):
#Microsoft offers a wide range of corporate tools, that (in parts) interact with each other, making it very comfortable for companies (of any size) to use them and thus getting "vendor locked-in".
E.g.:
Outlook connects to teams,
Edge (plans) to recommend (and connect) to teams and vice versa; logging in with MS SSO, over VPN, and so on, very strongly interconnect their different tools.
Would all that be possible - already today - using only #OpenSource tools?
With the same level of comfort and "interconnectedness" in comparably "high polished" user interfaces?
I ask, as someone some time ago stated that Microsoft would be "exceptionally good" in doing so for corporates.
@fasnix I don't think it would be possible with the 'same level of DIScomfort'... but yes with a MUCH BETTER lever of comfort. 😉
I explain. IMHO #Microsoft is a pain even with interoperability in between different versions of their own suite. By using #OpenSource applications such as #LibreOffice, #NextCloud, #OpenProject, #Thunderbird, etc., you'll be able to interoperate with others using a far more diverse landscape of systems and applications, including Linux, Apple and old versions of Microsoft applications that they don't support themselves any more, but you'll come across all the time.
I moved away from Microsoft and used exclusively OpenSource software for almost 20 years with zero regrets.
I do this both at personal and corporate level.
The only 'downside' is that you will learn new things... 😎
To be fair, there are some niche areas where proprietary software might be the only cross-platform suitable solutions, and then you need to add those to your suite, but that has not been my experience with any of the Microsoft products at all.
Just as an indicator, on #Azure, Microsoft's own cloud computing service, 60% of the cores are running #Linux.
Now, if you are one of those people who are scared of computers, or think that software is some kind of black magic or voodoo... ok, don't try... but in any other scenario with a bit of natural curiosity, you'll be fine. 😊
#Linux is like a Chinese copy of an #OS with poorly written documentation and badly fitting parts. I'm trying to load #Mozilla#Thunderbird on #Linux_Mint but the instructions are gibberish. e.g. instructions say following libraries or packages are needed:
glibc 2.17 or higher
GTK+ 3.14 or higher
libdbus-glib 0.6.0 or higher
libglib 2.42 or higher
libstdc++ 4.8.1 or higher
libxtst 1.2.3 or higher
X.Org 1.0 or higher
Why isn't there a way to check if my Mint install already has them?
@thunderbird@normplum Thanks. I'm an engineer by training and English was not my first language so I tend to think in analogies. It would be helpful to have an overview of how #Linux & #Thunderbird are similar/different from #Win/#Mac. Also, I'm very cautious about what I d/l and install on my desktop. It would be useful to know what sources can be trusted. Let me think more about this.
lately #thunderbird is freezing at start.. very slow response, almost unusable UI. takes a while to get to normal behavior, and sometimes freezes completely (=have to kill process).
using just 14 imap accounts (in 4 different servers) with a few dozen filters, and ~10 RSS feed subscriptions.
also connected to cardav/caldav with a single nextcloud instance.
could be network related, but have noticed same behavior both with slow/fast network connections.